Cashier

The cashier tracks the physical cash in your drawer across a shift. It answers one question at the end of the day: does the money in the drawer match what the system says should be there?

If Cashier does not appear in your navigation, the cash register feature is switched off for your company.

Opening the drawer

A shift starts by opening the cashier with an opening float — the change you put in the drawer to start the day. Until you open it, the screen shows Cash drawer closed and no cash movements can be recorded.

Only one session is open at a time, and Ceretta App records who opened it.

During the shift

While the session is open, cash payments taken anywhere in the app — a rental, a sale, a repair — are counted against it automatically. You do not need to record them twice.

Two things do need recording by hand, because they are movements of cash that are not sales:

• Cash in — money added to the drawer mid-shift, for example more change from the safe
• Cash out — money removed, for example a bank drop or paying a supplier from the till

Give each movement a reason. At closing time, an unexplained difference and a movement you forgot to record look identical, and the reason is what tells them apart weeks later.

Closing and reconciling

To close the drawer, count the physical cash and enter the counted cash figure. Ceretta App compares it against the expected cash, calculated as:

opening float
  + cash sales
  − cash refunds
  + cash in
  − cash out
  = expected cash

The difference is then reported as one of three outcomes:

• Exact — the count matches
• Over — there is more cash than expected
• Short — there is less cash than expected

A closed session also breaks the shift down by payment method, so you can see cash next to card and Pix totals. Only the cash line is reconciled — the others are there for the day's picture. You can print the summary for a paper record.

Session history

Every closed session is kept, with who opened it, who closed it, when, and what the difference was. This is the record to reach for when a discrepancy needs explaining, and it is why closing properly at the end of each shift is worth the ninety seconds it takes.

Practical advice

• Close every shift, even a quiet one. A session left open for three days makes any later difference impossible to attribute.
• Record cash out immediately. Bank drops recorded from memory at closing time are the most common source of phantom shortfalls.
• Small differences are normal. What matters is whether the same till is consistently short.